Thanks Rob and Keith for the suggestions. If the Stoppable.stop()
method actually does remove the agent from the schedule, that would
seem to be ideal.
Keith ---I don't know how computationally efficient dynamically adding
the living agents each step is, but it seems live a clever approach. I
hadn't considered resurrection, but it's a good thought. The float
value used in your sample might be an issue to due to floating point
accuracy/resolution issues, but I also note that there is no
scheduleOnce method signature that takes a float for the time. There
is some discussion in the javadoc about real-valued time steps (as
doubles) via the toReals() and fromReals() methods, but caution is
recommended --"You have to be careful using a real-valued schedule."
Tony
On Oct 5, 2004, at 9:57 AM, Keith Sullivan wrote:
> Another potential solution is to use the scheduleOnce method. In the
> step() method of your agents, you could test if they are alive on the
> current time step. If so, then run
> scheduleOnce(state.schedule.time()+1.0f, this)